Play Chess Housers Online

Chess Housers is one of those weird, brilliant MS-DOS games that makes you go, "Wait, why hasn’t anyone else done this?" You play as a floating glove—no explanation given—navigating these isometric rooms with chess pieces scattered everywhere. At first, it feels like a maze game, but then you realize you can push the pieces around… and they move exactly like real chess pieces. Pawns only go forward, knights hop in L-shapes, bishops slide diagonally—you get the idea.

Here’s the catch: if you accidentally push a rook into your path, it’ll crush you on its next move. The game doesn’t hold your hand, so you’ll spend a lot of time staring at the board, muttering, "Okay, if I move the pawn here, the knight can jump over there…" It’s chess, but you’re inside the board, and every mistake hurts.

Passwords save your progress (because it’s the ‘90s), and the puzzles get deviously clever fast. If you like logic games with a retro vibe, this one’s a hidden gem. Just don’t blame me when you lose an hour to figuring out a single room.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".